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Young woman dies after 'exorcism'
Jordan Times ^ | Thursday, August 22, 2002 | By Rana Husseini

Posted on 08/22/2002 1:49:42 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal

Young woman dies after 'exorcism'

By Rana Husseini

AMMAN — Zarqa police are questioning a so-called witch doctor who on Wednesday reportedly beat an 18-year-old girl to death to exorcise what he believed to be a demon inside her, official sources said.

The victim, Mariam Salem, was taken by her family to the witch doctor in Zarqa after complaining of stomach pains, the source said.

“The man stomped on the young woman's stomach and she fainted,” the source said.

Her family rushed her to Zarqa Government Hospital and told the attending physicians that she was sick but did not describe the exorcism session with the witch doctor, the source said.

The young woman died a few hours after being admitted to hospital, the source said, adding that physicians became suspicious over her sudden death and referred the body to the Zarqa Forensic Medicine Department for an autopsy.

Pathologists Ibrahim Obeidat and Mohammad Harzallah concluded that the deceased hemorrhaged to death from multiple contusions, Harzallah said..

The amount of bruises on her stomach indicated she did not die of natural causes, pathologist Harzallah told The Jordan Times.

The pathologist said this was the second such case in Zarqa in a year. Last year, an emotionally disturbed 18-year-old girl also died in similar circumstances when her family took her to a witch doctor to exorcise what they considered a demon from her.

Thursday, August 22, 2002


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: jordan; witchdoctor

1 posted on 08/22/2002 1:49:42 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal
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To: Thinkin' Gal
Amman? Was the reason she was possessed that she was showing ankle?
2 posted on 08/22/2002 1:54:07 PM PDT by Naspino
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To: Thinkin' Gal
The devil inside
The devil inside
Every single one of us
The devil inside...

--INXS, "The Devil Inside," Kick.

3 posted on 08/22/2002 1:58:59 PM PDT by Illbay
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To: Thinkin' Gal
Ironic name -- Mariam Salem

Boy, these people are enlightened, aren't they?

4 posted on 08/22/2002 1:59:44 PM PDT by Bigg Red
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To: Naspino
It worked.
5 posted on 08/22/2002 3:02:04 PM PDT by dwilli
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To: dwilli
Guess you can't call him a crackpot. No demon has ever lived through one of his exorcisms; or the demon possessed for that matter.
6 posted on 08/22/2002 3:03:42 PM PDT by Naspino
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To: 2sheep; Jeremiah Jr; Crazymonarch; babylonian; Simcha7; Prodigal Daughter; Yehuda; dennisw; ...
>>>The victim, Mariam Salem, was taken by her family to the witch doctor in Zarqa after complaining of stomach pains, the source said.

“The man stomped on the young woman's stomach and she fainted,” the source said. <<<

The witch doctor was first choice. What a screaming endorsement of their medical system.

7 posted on 08/22/2002 3:09:47 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal
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To: Thinkin' Gal
About fifteen years ago, a couple in Virginia Beach beat and starved a boy to death because he was "possessed". These folks had several foster children as well.
8 posted on 08/22/2002 3:16:06 PM PDT by csvset
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To: Thinkin' Gal
So sad. Perhaps they thought she was demon possessed because she objected to abuse.
9 posted on 08/22/2002 4:01:29 PM PDT by 2sheep
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